Backgrounds
Utilities for controlling the position of an element's background image.
Use the bg-{side}
utilities to control the position of an element’s background image.
bg-left-top
bg-top
bg-right-top
bg-left
bg-center
bg-right
bg-left-bottom
bg-bottom
bg-right-bottom
<div class="bg-no-repeat bg-left-top ..." style="background-image: url(...);"></div>
<div class="bg-no-repeat bg-top ..." style="background-image: url(...);"></div>
<div class="bg-no-repeat bg-right-top ..." style="background-image: url(...);"></div>
<div class="bg-no-repeat bg-left ..." style="background-image: url(...);"></div>
<div class="bg-no-repeat bg-center ..." style="background-image: url(...);"></div>
<div class="bg-no-repeat bg-right ..." style="background-image: url(...);"></div>
<div class="bg-no-repeat bg-left-bottom ..." style="background-image: url(...);"></div>
<div class="bg-no-repeat bg-bottom ..." style="background-image: url(...);"></div>
<div class="bg-no-repeat bg-right-bottom ..." style="background-image: url(...);"></div>
Tailwind lets you conditionally apply utility classes in different states using variant modifiers. For example, use hover:bg-to
to only apply the bg-to
utility on hover.
<div class="bg-center hover:bg-top ..." style="background-image: url(...)"></div>
For a complete list of all available state modifiers, check out the Hover, Focus, & Other States documentation.
You can also use variant modifiers to target media queries like responsive breakpoints, dark mode, prefers-reduced-motion, and more. For example, use md:bg-top
to apply the bg-top
utility at only medium screen sizes and above.
<div class="bg-center md:bg-top ..." style="background-image: url(...)"></div>
To learn more, check out the documentation on Responsive Design, Dark Mode and other media query modifiers.
By default, Tailwind provides nine background-position
utilities. You change, add, or remove these by editing the theme.backgroundPosition
section of your Tailwind config.
module.exports = {
theme: {
backgroundPosition: {
bottom: 'bottom',
'bottom-4': 'center bottom 1rem',
center: 'center',
left: 'left',
'left-bottom': 'left bottom',
'left-top': 'left top',
right: 'right',
'right-bottom': 'right bottom',
'right-top': 'right top',
top: 'top',
'top-4': 'center top 1rem',
}
}
}
Learn more about customizing the default theme in the theme customization documentation.
If you need to use a one-off background-position
value that doesn’t make sense to include in your theme, use square brackets to generate a property on the fly using any arbitrary value.
<div class="bg-[center_top_1rem]">
<!-- ... -->
</div>
Learn more about arbitrary value support in the arbitrary values documentation.